On this day
11 November
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1859
Brynhild Paulsdatter Størset is born in Selbu, Norway.
Belle Gunness Never caught
When her Indiana farmhouse burned in 1908, searchers found a dozen people buried on her land. Belle Gunness was declared dead. Many doubted it.
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1880
Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
Ned Kelly Executed
Three police dead at Stringybark Creek, two bank raids and a last stand in plough-iron armour: how the Kelly outbreak ended on a Melbourne gallows.
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1924
Glasscock, Joe and Jess Newton and Herbert Holliday change their pleas to guilty in federal court in Chicago.
Rondout train robbery Convicted
June 1924: the Newton brothers stop a mail train north of Chicago and take some $2 million, America's biggest train robbery. A postal inspector planned it.